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Which prize is awarded by the European Parliament for freedom of thought and human rights?
A. Academy Award
B. Pritzker Prize
C. Sakharov Prize
D. Abel Prize
Correct Answer: C
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded by the European Parliament.
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Which award is widely associated with public service and leadership in Asia and named after a Philippine president?
A. Booker Prize
B. Wolf Prize
C. Sakharov Prize
D. Ramon Magsaysay Award
Correct Answer: D
The Ramon Magsaysay Award recognizes leadership and service in Asia.
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Which award is associated with achievements in journalism, literature and music and was created through Joseph Pulitzer's bequest?
A. Emmy Award
B. Pulitzer Prize
C. Nobel Prize
D. Grammy Award
Correct Answer: B
Joseph Pulitzer's bequest funded the Pulitzer Prizes administered by Columbia University.
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Which major mathematics prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters?
A. Templeton Prize
B. Abel Prize
C. Pritzker Prize
D. Booker Prize
Correct Answer: B
The Abel Prize is a prestigious international mathematics award.
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Which medal is a major international mathematics award for mathematicians under age 40 at the start of the award year?
A. Turing Medal
B. Fields Medal
C. Nobel Prize in Mathematics
D. Pulitzer Medal
Correct Answer: B
The Fields Medal is awarded at the International Congress of Mathematicians, generally every four years.
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Which award is often called the 'Nobel Prize of Computing'?
A. ACM A.M. Turing Award
B. Ramon Magsaysay Award
C. Pulitzer Prize
D. Abel Prize
Correct Answer: A
The Turing Award is the premier prize of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Which award is often described as one of architecture's highest honors?
A. Fields Medal
B. Grammy Award
C. Turing Award
D. Pritzker Architecture Prize
Correct Answer: D
The Pritzker Prize recognizes significant contributions to architecture.
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Which prize is awarded for a novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland?
A. Booker Prize
B. Abel Prize
C. Fields Medal
D. Nobel Peace Prize
Correct Answer: A
The Booker Prize is a leading literary award for English-language fiction under its current eligibility rules.
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Which prize is associated especially with journalism and letters in the United States?
A. Pritzker Prize
B. Pulitzer Prize
C. Booker Prize
D. Fields Medal
Correct Answer: B
Pulitzer Prizes recognize journalism, literature and musical composition.
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Which award primarily recognizes Broadway theatre achievement?
A. Golden Globe only
B. Grammy Award
C. Tony Award
D. Oscar
Correct Answer: C
Tony Awards honor excellence in Broadway theatre.
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Which award primarily honors achievement in the music recording industry?
A. Grammy Award
B. Emmy
C. Tony
D. Oscar
Correct Answer: A
The Grammy Awards are major awards for recorded music.
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Which award primarily honors excellence in television in the United States?
A. Grammy Award
B. Pulitzer Prize
C. Emmy Award
D. Booker Prize
Correct Answer: C
The Emmy Awards recognize television achievement.
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Which award is widely known as the Oscar?
A. Academy Award
B. Tony Award
C. Emmy Award
D. Grammy Award
Correct Answer: A
The Academy Awards recognize achievement in film.
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Which Nobel Prize category is awarded in Oslo rather than Stockholm?
A. Peace
B. Physics
C. Literature
D. Chemistry
Correct Answer: A
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
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Which awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel?
A. Booker Prizes
B. Academy Awards
C. Pulitzer Prizes
D. Nobel Prizes
Correct Answer: D
Alfred Nobel's will established prizes in several fields, first awarded in 1901.
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Which trench contains Challenger Deep?
A. Peru-Chile Trench
B. Mariana Trench
C. Aleutian Trench
D. Philippine Trench
Correct Answer: B
Challenger Deep is within the Mariana Trench.
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What is the lowest point in the contiguous United States?
A. Mount Whitney
B. Salton Sea shore
C. Badwater Basin
D. Great Salt Lake
Correct Answer: C
Badwater Basin in Death Valley is the lowest point in the contiguous U.S.
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Which sea is famous for being one of the saltiest large natural bodies of water and at Earth's lowest exposed land depression?
A. Baltic Sea
B. Black Sea
C. Dead Sea
D. North Sea
Correct Answer: C
The Dead Sea occupies a deep continental depression and is hypersaline.
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What is the Kelvin value of absolute zero?
A. −273 K
B. 0 K
C. 100 K
D. 273.15 K
Correct Answer: B
The Kelvin scale begins at absolute zero.
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What is the lowest natural temperature theoretically possible?
A. Absolute zero
B. −100°C
C. −273°C exactly by definition in Celsius
D. 0°C
Correct Answer: A
Absolute zero is 0 K, equal to −273.15°C.